NaLu AU
I had this idea for a one-shot and couldn't get rid of it. I hope you'll like it, I really enjoyed writing this...
Enjoy!
She wanted this ride to end quickly. God, she hated long trips in buses! Thank God she had some good books at her to read during the trip.
It was afternoon, since she had trouble waking up early.
The bus didn't go yet. And her trip was supposed to last 24 hours, since she refused to take the plane.
'Can't this bus start going quicker?!', she yelled in her head. If it wasn't her best friend's marriage day, she wouldn't have gone anywhere. Her best friend's name was Levy. Damn, she dragged her everywhere after her! Well, it was one of the most important events in Levy's life, but still-
Her thoughts were interrupted by a sweet cinnamon scent next to her. She turned her head to see that now a pink-haired guy was sitting next to her.
Wait. PINK haired?!
She rubbed her eyes. Nope, her mind wasn't playing tricks on her. That guy obviously had pink spiky hair that also defied gravity. He was not looking at her and did not notice her persistent staring as she continued to judge his looks.
The next thing she noticed were his clothes. He was dressed very casually. He was wearing jeans and a T-shirt that showed off his biceps.
She almost forgot she had a book in her hand, but she remembered when the sneaky book slipped from her hands down at the guy's feet.
He turned his eyes to her book, then to her.
'Tell me he didn't notice I was staring, tell me he didn't notice I was staring!', she kept yelling in her head as she nervously blushed.
She noticed he had onyx-like, deep eyes that seemed a bit to be sparkling.
She did not notice him getting her book and checking it out.
"Wow, you like romance books? Awesome!", he said, grinning.
"Y-Yeah...", she burst, blushing at his grin that seemed to split his face in half. He seemed to also have sharp canines...
He gave her the book. She nervously took back her book, trying to hide her obvious embarrassment. She hoped he hadn't caught her staring at him...
'So, what's your name?', he smiled at her, while she tried to pretend she was very concentrated in her book.
"L-Lucy..."
"Cool! I'm Natsu!", he said, pointing a finger to himself.
'Natsu, huh? From what I know, Natsu means summer... And he seems pretty tanned... I see it suits him pretty well', Lucy thought, peeking at him with the corner of her eye.
After some time, the bus finally started going.
'Hallelujah! Finally, I'm getting closer to Levy!', she thought, a bit relieved, a bit stressed.
"So, where are you going?", Natsu asked her.
"Umm... To Magnolia... at my friend's wedding", she said bubbly.
"Really? A whole day trip, huh? I'm going to my brother's wedding! He's marrying a cute, short girl... don't really remember her name...", he said, putting a hand on his chin while trying to remember the bride's name.
"My friend is going to marry a tall, scary guy... I don't remember his name either, since I hadn't talked to him a lot...", she said, imitating Natsu.
His face turned a slight green as he took out a pill and a bottle of water from his backpack, quickly swallowing the pill with water.
"What's the pill for?" Lucy's thoughts slipped on her lips.
"I... kinda have motion sickness... Runs in the family...", he muttered, staring up at nothing, trying to get himself distracted until his cure makes its effect.
Lucy softly smiled. 'Poor guy... I guess he has a lot of pills in his backpack...'
Wait, backpack!
Oh, crap, she forgot to put her backpack away!
Lucy quickly got up on her tiptoes, lifting the suitcase up. But, as easy as it seemed to be, it was actually extremely HARD!
And her backpack wasn't too light either.
'Damn, why did I had to take so many books with me?! I didn't need that much!' She mentally facepalmed herself at her own idiocy as she continued trying to lift her backpack and put it in the suitcase.
As Natsu's motion sickness started drifting off, he turned his head to Lucy. Seeing her struggle with her backpack, he got up, took the backpack from her and opened the suitcase, storing her things there. Lucy watched him as he almost effortlessly stored both backpacks in the suitcase.
"T-Thanks, Natsu...", she mumbled, not expecting help from him.
"No problem Luce", he said, his trademark grin present on his face.
"L-Luce?", she slightly blushed at the nickname.
"Yeah, I thought Lucy was a bit long, so I decided to call you Luce, since it's shorter and cuter. If you don't like it, I won't call you like that anymore...", he said, a faint blush on his cheeks, while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
"N-No, it's okay, I like it", she said, playing with a blond strand of her hair, blushing.
They both sat back on their seats, Lucy obviously avoiding eye contact with him. She resumed her reading, but didn't remember too much of what she was reading. Natsu was staring through the window at the clouds.
'This is gonna be a boring day...' Natsu muttered to himself, while staring at the clouds.
Lucy peeked through the window. Natsu looked so bored...
"Luce, look at that clouds!", he suddenly exclaimed, pointing at the sky.
A few heads turned to them, but quickly became uninterested with what Natsu said.
Lucy smiled at his childish behaviour and turned her eyes to the clouds.
"That cloud is looking like a dragon!", he said, amazement obvious in his voice.
"Yup, that cloud sure looks like a dragon. And look! That one looks like a fairy!", Lucy giggled.
"Hey Luce, why is your fairy cloud going towards my dragon?", Natsu asked.
Lucy tilted her head at him, raising an eyebrow. Natsu pointed to the fairy-shaped cloud.
The cloud was actually really going towards the dragon-shaped cloud. Her eyes widened.
"Hey, that's kinda wrong... Up there, the clouds can't actually run into each other like that", she mumbled to herself.
"Huh? Why?"
Lucy mentally facepalmed, not realizing how good his hearing was if he heard that silent whisper.
"Because that just how it is..."
"I don't get it", Natsu said as Lucy sighed. "Luce, look, they're close to mixing together!"
Lucy turned her head back to the clouds.
The fairy cloud mixed with the dragon cloud. They both stared in amazement, looking at the new shape that was forming.
"Luce, is that a heart?", Natsu said, smiling at the new, heart-shaped cloud.
Lucy blushed a little at the realization. It's not everyday you see two clouds mixing with each other, forming a heart shape.
"Yeah, I guess...", she smiled at the heart cloud, not realizing now he was the one looking at her. He looked at her content grin, and his lips curved into a smile unconsciously.
They returned to their seats. Natsu still peeked with the corners of his eyes at the heart-shaped cloud that was now shattered by the sun.
"Hey Luce, do you like fairies?"
"Yes, they're my favorite fictional characters! They're so gentle, magical and beautiful! But why are you asking me?"
"I don't know... I just think I saw a fairy next to me...", he smiled with a slight blush on his cheeks.
Lucy didn't get what he meant to say, so she ignored it and got resumed her reading.
~ some hours later ~
'I'm sleepy...' Lucy yawned as she closed her book. She turned her head to the window. 'It's night already...'
Natsu was already softly snoring, his head fallen by the side. He looked so cute and adorable while sleeping, something that couldn't go unnoticed by Lucy of course.
She turned her gaze up as she stared blankly at nothing. Her head started feeling heavy as she drifted into sleep. Her book slipped from her hands, falling to the ground while she fell into a deep sleep.
Natsu cracked one eye open at the noise. He saw Lucy's book on the ground and leaned to get it and put it beside her.
He felt something falling on his shoulder. He looked at his side, and he saw Lucy hugging his arm in her sleep. A smile crept on his face, as he fell asleep as well.
~ the second day ~
"Luce... Luce, wake up..."
Lucy slowly opened her eyes.
"W-What...?", she mumbled between sleepy yawns while rubbing her eyes.
"We're getting close to Magnolia", he softly smiled. "You should get ready, since your friend is waiting for you."
"How do you know that?", she tilted her head, confused.
"You received a message from someone called Levy-chan, and I think she's your friend, since you're going to your friend's marriage, right?", he smiled.
Lucy blinked.
"I received a message?! Why didn't you wake me up?!"
"You were sleeping so softly I didn't get myself to wake you up. And you were holding my arm. Like now."
Lucy realized she hugged his arm while sleeping. She quickly removed her hands, nervously, blushing.
"S-Sorry for that...", she said while getting up and trying to open the suitcase again, but obviously failing.
"No problem Luce!", he grinned widely, opening the suitcase for her and taking down both backpacks. "Now get ready, we're about to reach Magnolia. That's where we're getting down."
"W-We?", she muttered while putting her book (that Natsu put beside her while she was asleep) in her backpack.
"Yeah, my brother's wedding is in Magnolia. And I live there too!"
"Really? I was thinking about moving in Magnolia so I could spend more time with Levy..."
"Then you should, it's a really cool city with lots of nice people!"
The bus stopped, as their arrival at Magnolia was announced.
"Well, looks like we're going", he smiled, throwing his bag on his back.
Lucy followed him out of the bus.
"Bye Luce! See ya' later!", Natsu grinned widely and started running. Perhaps to his brother.
Lucy stared blankly behind him. What did he mean by see ya' later?
~ the second day ~
"... Lucy?", Levy asked, looking confused at her best friend who had her head slammed on the table. "Are you okay?"
"W-What? Oh, yeah, I'm fine", Lucy said, raising her head and waving with her hand to let the idea of her not being okay go away. "What were you saying?"
"Do you think Gajeel is going to like this dress?", Levy nervously asked, twirling so Lucy could see the entire wedding dress.
"Of course he'll like it", Lucy smiled. "He likes you whatever you're wearing anyways."
"Did you meet somebody during your trip to Magnolia?", Levy winked to her.
"Yeah, I met somebody...", Lucy shrugged as she let her head slam on the table again.
"A guy...?"
"Yeah, a guy..."
"You like him?"
Lucy raised her head, annoyed.
"What?!"
"Yep, you like him!", Levy giggled.
Her red face made it obvious enough for Levy that Lucy liked the guy she met.
Lucy pouted like a child and turned her head away from Levy, who was laughing.
~ at the wedding ~
Lucy wasn't in the mood to party. She looked around; perhaps she would see him here... Sighing as she didn't spot anything like him, she turned her gaze to the floor.
"Lucy, are you looking for someone?", Erza asked, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"No... not really... I don't expect him to be here anyways..."
"Him? Him who?", Erza raised an eyebrow, confused.
Lucy kinda missed his childish stare at the clouds... She wondered what he meant by see you later... How could she see him later if she didn't even know where his brother's wedding was?
"Luce?"
Lucy snapped out of her thoughts as she saw Natsu next to Erza, his wide grin showing his canines in their full glory. He was dressed in an elegant suit.
"Natsu?"
Erza looked at the two confused.
"H-How do you know each other?", Erza asked, turning her head once to Natsu, once to Lucy.
"We met in the bus", Natsu and Lucy said simultaneously, both smiling.
"You were looking for him?", Erza asked, pointing to him.
Natsu blinked.
"You were looking for me? And here I thought I was the only one looking for someone in here!", Natsu chuckled.
"Who were you looking for, Natsu?", Erza asked again, even more confused.
"I was looking for Luce, of course!", Natsu's grin widened as he looked in Lucy's chocolate-brown eyes.
"...L-Luce?", Erza repeated after him, totally dumbfounded. "I-I think I'll leave you two alone...", she added, getting back to the others.
The two watched as the red-head walked away from them.
"So, what are you doing here? Weren't you going at your brother's wedding?", Lucy smiled.
Natsu giggled a little at her.
"You haven't realized until now, haven't you? Gajeel is my brother."
Lucy's eyes widened at the statement.
Sharp canines...
Motion sickness...
Why didn't she realize that sooner?
"As soon as I found out Levy was your friend, I remembered Gajeel was marrying a short, blue-haired girl named Levy, and that lead me to the realization that we are both going to the same wedding!"
Lucy looked at him amazed. He could actually be really smart from time to time, despite his extremely childish, idiotic but super cute gestures.
"Remember when I asked you if you like fairies because I thought I saw one next to me? I think you realize what fairy I was talking about, right?", Natsu smiled with a faint blush on his cheeks.
Lucy's face reddened at the realization. Her expression got the attention of Levy and Gajeel. Levy winked to Gajeel.
"Lucy, do you know him?", she sneakily asked Lucy.
"I met him in the bus. I just found out he's your fiancee's brother!", Lucy said, still a bit amazed she hadn't figured it out first.
"Why is your face red, Lucy?", Levy chuckled, winking.
"I-I just remembered I saw a heart-shaped cloud...", Lucy muttered, turning her head away from Levy.
"Oh, you're talking about that cloud I showed you Luce? That heart cloud made by my dragon-like cloud and your fairy-like cloud that were running into each other, which you said it's not usually possible since my cloud was in the right and yours was in the left?", Natsu said, remembering it too.
Levy and Gajeel looked at them for a bit.
"Wait a minute, so Natsu saw a dragon-shaped cloud...", Levy began.
".. and he's obsessed with dragons...", Gajeel continued.
"Then Lucy saw a fairy-shaped cloud..."
"... and she's obsessed with fairies..."
"And then, you say the two clouds that were in opposite directions ran into each other..."
"...mixed..."
"...and formed a heart shape?", Levy exclaimed.
"You know what that means, right?", Gajeel said to Levy.
Lucy and Natsu raised an eyebrow at the two newly weds.
"You two are meant for each other!", Gajeel and Levy both exclaimed.
"Just like in fairy tales!", Levy squealed.
Lucy and Natsu blinked a few times, then looked at each other. Then quickly turned their heads away from each other, heavily blushing.
"What do you mean we're meant for each other?!", they both said, embarrassed.
"Look, you even synchronize each other!", Levy awwed, while Gajeel laughed at their embarrassment.
"No we don't!", they both said, again simultaneously.
"Natsu, you know what Lucy said before she came to the wedding?", Levy mischievously smiled, turning to Natsu.
"No... what?", Natsu said, raising an eyebrow as Lucy squeaked.
'Oh no, don't tell me she's gonna tell him...'
"She was sad, and I asked her what's wrong, and she told me she met a guy in the bus and that she missed him, and she blushed when I asked her about him...", Levy said, winking to Lucy.
"Don't tell me she was talking about me...?", Natsu said, his cheeks flushing redder than before.
"Yup! She was talking about ya'!" Levy giggled at Natsu and Lucy. Their faces were as red as tomatoes as they avoided looking at each other.
Lucy peeked at Natsu with the corners of her eyes. He looked as embarrassed as her. She let the embarrassment go away and hugged him, remembering how much she missed him.
Natsu looked slightly surprised at her sudden hug.
"I missed you...", she said, as everybody stared at them, hearing Levy's loud awws.
She admitted. She liked him a bit. Maybe a bit more...
And he liked her too.
Sneaky Levy, she would now team up with Mirajane to get them together!
Hey guys, I hope you liked it. It took me a lot to write this one, but I am so very glad I wrote it and managed to post it on the same day!
I hope you like the fluff I added. I'm such a NaLu fluff lover!
I hope you enjoyed it, and Natsu's smart realization that Lucy couldn't outdone, the one about them actually going at the same wedding!
Let me know what you think about it!
